C. I. Scofield (Cyrus Ingerson Scofield) Quotes

The promise to the Church is a promise of persecution, if faithful in this world, but a promise of a great inheritance and reward hereafter.

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• I'm fighting hard to make the world a better place, and you can, too. Get involved with your community, be a leader, set an example, be passionate, be your best.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
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• Anyone can wear any color. The question is about finding the right shade. There is a momentary trend to dark colors because when the financials are not that great, people go for black, navy and grey.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • People
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  • Black

• I think that Richard Nixon is a great man and that he is very dedicated to what he does. I had the pleasure of meeting him when I attended the Republican National Convention in Miami. You can really tell that he is willing to go out of his way to help the American people.

  

  Laraine Day
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• Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went.

  

  Omar Khayyam
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• There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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  • Art
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• The first time I ever recorded, which was into my boom-box, I was like, 'Wow, check that out.' It sounded great. The narcotic of it was so intense - it was pleasurable. I was like, 'You sound like a band.' Then I ended up spending the rest of my life trying to chase that initial high again.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• I want to do everything in the world that can be done.

  

  Fanny Kemble
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  • Want

• I think movie and television companies are in the business of making money, and if you have a franchise, eventually you'll want to exploit that franchise and revisit it. So I assume at some point someone will do another story in the 'Lost' world.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • World
  • Money
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• When the dollar was separated entirely from gold in 1971, it ceased being the official IMF world currency and finally had to compete with other currencies... From that point forward, its value increasingly became discounted.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • World
  • Value
  • Gold

• I've found that men I've dated who are in the same business can be really competitive. I've found a great group of girlfriends in the same business who aren't competitive, but a few times guys have started comparing careers and it has been... challenging.

  

  Taylor Swift
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  • Business

• The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Great
  • Nature
  • Man

• Basically, our goal is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful.

  

  Larry Page
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  • Goal
  • Information

• On the weekends, I do the usual parental things, going to the boys' football tournaments or getting out for a hike along the Great Wall.

  

  Zhang Xin
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  • Football
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• The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
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• I believe the universe has great plans for us. When you are young, you don't learn that.

  

  Iman
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  • Believe
  • Universe

• When you're in a fighter jet and there's a dark layer of clouds with just one blue hole with the sun going through it, you shoot for that hole. You go vertical into the light, and suddenly, instead of gray and dark, it's light and blue. You are totally connected with the elements. You are in another world.

  

  Yves Rossy
  • World
  • Light
  • Dark

• It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • World
  • Music
  • Crazy

• My father's drinking was sometimes a problem. And a great deal went unspoken. He was not particularly acute or articulate about the emotions. But he was very affectionate towards me.

  

  Ian Mcewan
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  • Problem

• The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.

  

  Irving Babbitt
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  • Revolution
  • Ethical

• In the early days, when I first got into the WI team, when the Ws were playing, I would sit and watch. When you could learn from watching players like that, it was a great joy to watch them play.

  

  Garfield Sobers
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  • Team
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• You say we are not one, you say truly there are two of us. Yes, there were two of us, but we were one. As for myself, I am splintered by great waves. I am coloured glass from a church window long since shattered. I find pieces of myself everywhere, and I cut myself handling them.

  

  Jeanette Winterson
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  • Long
  • Church

• The next Bond ought to be a woman or, at least, a black actor.

  

  Douglas Hodge
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• The promise to the Church is a promise of persecution, if faithful in this world, but a promise of a great inheritance and reward hereafter.

  

  C. I. Scofield
  • World
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  • Church